Teaching is hard.
Figuring it out alone is harder.
Tammy’s Teaching Tips is a video series and a community where teachers who have already made the mistakes hand over what worked. For students heading into the profession, teachers in their first year, teachers in their thirtieth — and the parents who are teaching at home now too.
“The best things I learned, I learned from another teacher at lunch. Nobody ever wrote them down.”
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What this pays
Teaching is a very difficult job that pays back in emotional reward far more than financial — most of all when your children succeed. We say that out loud here, on the first day, instead of letting you find out in March.
Wherever you are in it
Four doors into the same room. Pick the one that sounds like you.
Future teachers
You're in a program, or thinking about one, and you want to know what the job is actually like before day one.
New teachers
You have your own room now. This is the survive-then-thrive shelf: routines, parents, and the things nobody covered in college.
Veteran teachers
You know how to teach. You're here for a fresh angle, or a way through a year that feels heavier than the last one.
Parents
You're teaching at the kitchen table whether you signed up for it or not — homework, screens, reading, and now AI.
Start with these
Short videos. One idea each. Nothing you need a training day to use.
0:56Be that teacher
Think of the teacher who changed something for you. Now go be that person.
With Tammy Striler
2:18Call home with something good
Parents brace for the school's number. Break that pattern before anything goes wrong.
With Tammy Striler
1:21If you're in it for the summers off, rethink it
One of the most rewarding things you'll do, and one of the hardest. Both are true.
With Tammy Striler
…or take your pick
Is this the hill you want to die on?Relationships · 1:01
Fake it till you make itParents & families · 1:24
Teach like there's a camera on your shoulderParents & families · 2:00
Relationships are the whole jobRelationships · 2:26
Don't spend your own money on incentivesIn the classroom · 2:06
Use humorIn the classroom · 2:01
Cry week is coming, and it's normalLooking after yourself · 1:28
On breaks, actually disconnectLooking after yourself · 1:25
Take the twelve-month payThe realities of the job · 1:02
Get out of your room at lunchRelationships · 1:55
No surprises for your principalRelationships · 1:48
Class parties: no glitter, everBig days & events · 1:40
Take work email off your phoneLooking after yourself · 1:27
First day, back-to-school night, conferencesBig days & events · 1:29
The things people say when you tell them you're a teacherThe realities of the job · 1:13
What's said in the tent stays in the tentRelationships · 0:55
Be flexible — this job changes on a dimeThe realities of the job · 1:34Pour Your Ed Out
It started during Covid, when the staff room became a video call and everybody brought their own glass. Tammy interviews teachers about the year they’re having — honestly, and with a drink, because apparently that is the one thing every teacher has in common.
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Lisa Eaton
Episode 15 · 3rd grade teacher · About 2021
AI came to school. Parents got no handbook.
Children are going to use these tools whether or not the adults are ready. The question worth answering isn’t whether to allow it — it’s how a child learns to use it without handing over the thinking. We wrote the guide we wanted our own families to have.
Read the parent guide- Is using AI on homework cheating? A rule your child can apply alone.
- Four questions to ask your child's teacher this term.
- What to never put into a chatbot.
- How to tell if the thinking actually happened.
The education system will not improve on its own
It improves when people who know how to teach put what they know into the hands of the people teaching next — parents, teachers, and the parents who are teachers.
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